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Story, Wyoming

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Sheridan South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82842. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Story quadrangle. 903 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,036 feet above sea level.

Story within Sheridan County

Population over time

2 figures

Story grew from 828 to 903 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010828
2020903+75 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Story between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 8 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning4
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
17 September 2013Naturalunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
8 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresBuffalo Field OfficeMILE MARKER 42
3 August 2004Naturalunder an acreBighorn National ForestGRANDMA'S MOUNTAIN
2 August 2017Naturalunder an acreBuffalo Field OfficeBEAR CANYON
2 August 2017Natural1.0 acresJohnson CountyBEAR CANYON FIRE
17 August 2020Smoking5.0 acresSheridan County620 HWY 193
15 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Story: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kearney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Little Falls ClaimTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
UnknownLimestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

24 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Story in 24 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 21 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Funnel CloudStory-A brief funnel cloud was reported by law enforcement north of Lake Desmet.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindStory-A thunderstorm wind gust around 70 mph resulted in about 8 trees either toppled or broken in the Story area.
July 2023HailStory-no account filed
July 2023HailStory-no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindStory-no account filed
July 2021HailStory-no account filed
July 2021HailStory-no account filed
August 2019HailStory-no account filed
August 2019HailStory-no account filed
August 2019HailStory-no account filed
August 2018HailStory-no account filed
August 2018HailStory-no account filed
June 2016HailStory-no account filed
June 2016HailStory-no account filed
May 2013HailStory-no account filed
May 2013HailStory-no account filed
May 2013HailStory-no account filed
May 2013HailStory-no account filed
May 2013HailStory-no account filed
June 2010HailStory-no account filed
June 2010HailStory-no account filed
June 2010HailStory-no account filed
July 2008HailStory-no account filed
July 2008HailStory-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Banner2.2 miles13
Big Horn9.4 miles13
Powder Horn9.6 miles13
Sheridan15.8 miles13
Verona16.2 miles11
Ulm16.6 miles11
Wyarno17.5 miles12
Beckton17.6 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on StoryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1949682The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1603389. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.